The IFCMA Climate Policy Database: A climate change mitigation policy inventory

Join us for an upcoming discussion with OECD experts on the IFCMA Climate Policy Database, an innovative tool designed to systematically classify and compare climate policy instruments across countries.

The session will present how the database captures key design features of policy instruments and will discuss ongoing efforts to integrate information on the coverage of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through these instruments.

By structuring this information, the database offers valuable insights for students and researchers interested in climate policy, enabling policy comparison across jurisdictions, supporting empirical analysis, and fostering mutual learning on mitigation strategies.

Speakers

Dirk Röttgers is an economist in the Tax and Environment Unit at the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD, and leads the work on the IFCMA Climate Policy Database for the Centre. In his close to 18 year career as economist and 10 years at the OECD, Dirk has focused on climate change mitigation and related topics. For his work at the OECD, those topics notably include mitigation topics with a focus on renewable electricity as well as green finance with a focus on large-scale investment, institutional investors as well as cross-border investments. Dirk has a background in environmental and development economics, and holds a PhD from the University of Hanover as well as a master-level economist degree from the University of Göttingen.

Nathan Ducrocq is a junior economist in the Tax and Environment Unit at the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration of the OECD, and maintains the database and ancillary data work on the IFCMA Climate Policy Database for the Centre. During his 3 years of working on tax and the environment, Nathan has focused on renewable energy support policies, vehicle taxation and input-output modeling of carbon prices embedded in trade along with other related environmental topics. Nathan has an academic background in energy economics and international sustainable development.

Marc Ringel, Chairholder of the European Chair for Sustainable Development and Climate Transition will deliver introductory remarks.